The prime minister of Barbados evoked a Jamaican reggae legend Wednesday as she described in stark terms the “triple crisis” in her region that’s threatening the health and welfare of the entire Western Hemisphere.
“Bob Marley would say, ‘So much trouble in the world,”’ Mia Mottley said at the outset of a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for him the first of many at this week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
The plight Mottley described is hardly unfamiliar: the lasting economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring fuel and food costs exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and a climate crisis that’s being felt most acutely in tiny island nations like Barbados.
